Walking Into a Trap

The Slate Plus Digest for Jan. 6.

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Jamelle Bouie points out that our government is entirely in the hands of the most extreme party coalition since the Civil War. (He also reminds us that new NBC star Megyn Kelly is a racial demagogue. Everyone knows Milo Yiannopoulos is a racial demagogue, but Slatesters differ on whether Simon & Schuster should be publishing his book.)

Donald Trump is disparaging the intelligence community at his own peril, argues Fred Kaplan.

And if you don’t have plans for the weekend, why not spend Saturday night catching up on the nonexistent Sinbad classic Shazaam?

From the Archives

Anne Dailey, of Northern Virginia, writes: “If I have to pick just one thing to say GO CONSUME THIS NOW, it would be a conversation with Rosalind Wiseman from Mom and Dad Are Fighting. As the mom to a seven-year-old girl (who can see the “mean girls” already), I was appreciative of Dan’s and Alison’s thoughtful questions and the feedback from Ms. Wiseman on how to help our daughter handle the crappy teen and tween years; I cried while listening.”

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Gabriel Roth
Editorial director, Slate Plus

Gabriel Roth is a Slate senior editor and the editorial director of Slate Plus.